Whales and Whaling: a Dance of Death

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Author: Fitter, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1975
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; Norway; Grim; Antarc*; baleen whales
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300013326; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605300013326

The whaling industry and its raw material, the whale stocks of the world, continue their grim Totentanz towards their mutual extinction. The most significant event of the 27th meeting of the International Whaling Commission in London in June, and one of the least publicised, was the Soviet announcem...